childbirth
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Setting emotions aside, the timing of childbirth for older parents can stymie their earning power.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Baby Carrie has not been born yet at the start of the series, in part so the show could explore pioneer pregnancy and childbirth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Ms. Saxbe uncovers clues about how maternal and paternal brains are restructured by childbirth, correlated to a “stronger attunement” with infants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Before modern medicine, however, there were limits to how large an infant's head could become before childbirth became dangerously difficult for both mother and child.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
In the book Men Against Death I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
This wouldn’t affect childbirths if the propensity to get married had remained constant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
Couples can now have up to three children, and CNN reported that childbirths from unmarried parents will soon be registered with health care officials.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
Two grueling childbirths drove her to seek surgery.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2019
Indeed, not every baby has a mother: before modern medicine, about one in 100 childbirths killed the mother.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2017
This publication for January, 1922, gives the results in five hundred childbirths, in which the mother's age was from twelve to sixteen years inclusive.
From The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair
